Matteo Ruggiu, PhD
@rnadoctor.bsky.social
Professor, Head of Laboratory of RNA Biology & Molecular Neuroscience, St. John's University, New York, USA. Humanist, Spearfisherman & Freediver. Views my own.
January 23, 2026 at 1:00 AM
A useful tool for studying cytokine biology, alternative splicing, and immune regulation. 🧬🧪
Part of the book series Methods in Molecular Biology.
#GeneExpression
#GeneRegulation
#RTPCR
#Quantification
#Densitometry
Part of the book series Methods in Molecular Biology.
#GeneExpression
#GeneRegulation
#RTPCR
#Quantification
#Densitometry
January 12, 2026 at 4:14 PM
A useful tool for studying cytokine biology, alternative splicing, and immune regulation. 🧬🧪
Part of the book series Methods in Molecular Biology.
#GeneExpression
#GeneRegulation
#RTPCR
#Quantification
#Densitometry
Part of the book series Methods in Molecular Biology.
#GeneExpression
#GeneRegulation
#RTPCR
#Quantification
#Densitometry
We describe a cost-effective, accessible RT-PCR + densitometry approach to simultaneously identify and quantify multiple interleukin splice variants in a single reaction—an alternative to variant-specific qPCR.
January 12, 2026 at 4:12 PM
We describe a cost-effective, accessible RT-PCR + densitometry approach to simultaneously identify and quantify multiple interleukin splice variants in a single reaction—an alternative to variant-specific qPCR.
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Our method paper entitled: "Semi-quantitative RT-PCR Assay for the Analysis of Alternative Splicing of Interleukin Genes" is out now on the volume "Immune Mediators in Cancer"!
🧵 Thread 👇
#AlternativeSplicing
#SpliceVariant
#Interleukins
#Cytokines
Our method paper entitled: "Semi-quantitative RT-PCR Assay for the Analysis of Alternative Splicing of Interleukin Genes" is out now on the volume "Immune Mediators in Cancer"!
🧵 Thread 👇
#AlternativeSplicing
#SpliceVariant
#Interleukins
#Cytokines
January 12, 2026 at 4:05 PM
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Our method paper entitled: "Semi-quantitative RT-PCR Assay for the Analysis of Alternative Splicing of Interleukin Genes" is out now on the volume "Immune Mediators in Cancer"!
🧵 Thread 👇
#AlternativeSplicing
#SpliceVariant
#Interleukins
#Cytokines
Our method paper entitled: "Semi-quantitative RT-PCR Assay for the Analysis of Alternative Splicing of Interleukin Genes" is out now on the volume "Immune Mediators in Cancer"!
🧵 Thread 👇
#AlternativeSplicing
#SpliceVariant
#Interleukins
#Cytokines
#scientistswhocook: spaghetti with tilapia, shrimp, cherry tomatoes, and Taiwanese bottarga.
#spaghetti
#tilapia
#bottarga
#Taiwan
#spaghetti
#tilapia
#bottarga
#Taiwan
January 8, 2026 at 3:12 PM
#scientistswhocook: spaghetti with tilapia, shrimp, cherry tomatoes, and Taiwanese bottarga.
#spaghetti
#tilapia
#bottarga
#Taiwan
#spaghetti
#tilapia
#bottarga
#Taiwan
#scientistswhocook: spaghetti with shrimp, maitake (Hen of the Woods) mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, parsley, mascarpone, and bottarga from Taiwan 🇹🇼.
Served with a Ferrari spumante to celebrate the New Year 🎆
#spaghetti
#shrimp
#maitake
#mushroom
#mascarpone
#bottarga
#Taiwan
#spumante
#Ferrari
Served with a Ferrari spumante to celebrate the New Year 🎆
#spaghetti
#shrimp
#maitake
#mushroom
#mascarpone
#bottarga
#Taiwan
#spumante
#Ferrari
January 2, 2026 at 6:47 PM
#scientistswhocook: spaghetti with shrimp, maitake (Hen of the Woods) mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, parsley, mascarpone, and bottarga from Taiwan 🇹🇼.
Served with a Ferrari spumante to celebrate the New Year 🎆
#spaghetti
#shrimp
#maitake
#mushroom
#mascarpone
#bottarga
#Taiwan
#spumante
#Ferrari
Served with a Ferrari spumante to celebrate the New Year 🎆
#spaghetti
#shrimp
#maitake
#mushroom
#mascarpone
#bottarga
#Taiwan
#spumante
#Ferrari
Holidays 🎄 lab dinner! I feel so grateful for my awesome team for such an amazingly productive (4 papers!) 2025!
From L in the first picture: Damyan, Chris, Daisy (former UG student) me, Faruk (former PhD Student), Mostafiz and his wife, Amatun Noor, Katelyn.
From L in the first picture: Damyan, Chris, Daisy (former UG student) me, Faruk (former PhD Student), Mostafiz and his wife, Amatun Noor, Katelyn.
December 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Holidays 🎄 lab dinner! I feel so grateful for my awesome team for such an amazingly productive (4 papers!) 2025!
From L in the first picture: Damyan, Chris, Daisy (former UG student) me, Faruk (former PhD Student), Mostafiz and his wife, Amatun Noor, Katelyn.
From L in the first picture: Damyan, Chris, Daisy (former UG student) me, Faruk (former PhD Student), Mostafiz and his wife, Amatun Noor, Katelyn.
Time to say goodbye to Taiwan 😥. Amazing country, amazing people, amazing science. Just amazing 🇹🇼. Wish I could have stayed longer: 2 weeks is not enough!
Btw,if, like me, you're visiting Taiwan for the first time, great suggestions from Nick Kembel 👉 www.taiwanobsessed.com
#Taiwan
#ILoveTaiwan
Btw,if, like me, you're visiting Taiwan for the first time, great suggestions from Nick Kembel 👉 www.taiwanobsessed.com
#Taiwan
#ILoveTaiwan
December 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Time to say goodbye to Taiwan 😥. Amazing country, amazing people, amazing science. Just amazing 🇹🇼. Wish I could have stayed longer: 2 weeks is not enough!
Btw,if, like me, you're visiting Taiwan for the first time, great suggestions from Nick Kembel 👉 www.taiwanobsessed.com
#Taiwan
#ILoveTaiwan
Btw,if, like me, you're visiting Taiwan for the first time, great suggestions from Nick Kembel 👉 www.taiwanobsessed.com
#Taiwan
#ILoveTaiwan
Thank you, Dr. Hsien-Sung Huang for hosting me during my stay in #Taipei & for inviting me to present my work at #NationalTaiwanUniversity. I had a wonderful time talking #organoids, #AlternativeSplicing, #RNAediting, & Rbfox 3.
Huang lab (黃憲松實驗室) share.google/Rv5o6uwhByHV...
#Taiwan
#IonChannels
Huang lab (黃憲松實驗室) share.google/Rv5o6uwhByHV...
#Taiwan
#IonChannels
December 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Thank you, Dr. Hsien-Sung Huang for hosting me during my stay in #Taipei & for inviting me to present my work at #NationalTaiwanUniversity. I had a wonderful time talking #organoids, #AlternativeSplicing, #RNAediting, & Rbfox 3.
Huang lab (黃憲松實驗室) share.google/Rv5o6uwhByHV...
#Taiwan
#IonChannels
Huang lab (黃憲松實驗室) share.google/Rv5o6uwhByHV...
#Taiwan
#IonChannels
And look at this beauty! 😍 Thank you @ella-maru.bsky.social for providing this gorgeous 12"x 18" metal print of the cover art image! Wonderful gift 🎁. Much appreciated 🙏
December 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
And look at this beauty! 😍 Thank you @ella-maru.bsky.social for providing this gorgeous 12"x 18" metal print of the cover art image! Wonderful gift 🎁. Much appreciated 🙏
#scientistswhocook: I used the bonito skin to make crispy oven baked fish skin chips.
#bonito
#palamita
#FishChips
#bonito
#palamita
#FishChips
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
#scientistswhocook: I used the bonito skin to make crispy oven baked fish skin chips.
#bonito
#palamita
#FishChips
#bonito
#palamita
#FishChips
#scientistswhocook: spaghetti with bonito (palamita in Italian) marinated in rosé wine, and bottarga.
#spaghetti
#bonito
#palamita
#bottarga
#spaghetti
#bonito
#palamita
#bottarga
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
#scientistswhocook: spaghetti with bonito (palamita in Italian) marinated in rosé wine, and bottarga.
#spaghetti
#bonito
#palamita
#bottarga
#spaghetti
#bonito
#palamita
#bottarga
#scientistswhocook: oven roasted rainbow trout on a bed of sliced onions, potatoes, peppers and cherry tomatoes. The fish was marinated in olive oil and rosé wine.
#rainbowtrout
#rainbowtrout
November 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
#scientistswhocook: oven roasted rainbow trout on a bed of sliced onions, potatoes, peppers and cherry tomatoes. The fish was marinated in olive oil and rosé wine.
#rainbowtrout
#rainbowtrout
Finally, beautiful cover art created by @ella-maru.bsky.social. The image wasn't selected as image cover by JBC, but I love it.
October 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Finally, beautiful cover art created by @ella-maru.bsky.social. The image wasn't selected as image cover by JBC, but I love it.
#scientistswhocook: spaghetti with squid 🦑 (ink included) in a white wine, garlic, butter and parsley sauce; pan seared swordfish with a side of grilled vegetables.
#spaghetti #squid #swordfish
#spaghetti #squid #swordfish
October 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
#scientistswhocook: spaghetti with squid 🦑 (ink included) in a white wine, garlic, butter and parsley sauce; pan seared swordfish with a side of grilled vegetables.
#spaghetti #squid #swordfish
#spaghetti #squid #swordfish
I just got my annual #FluShot 💉. Thanks to my employer, St. John's University, for organizing the Flu Clinic on campus every year.
#VaccinesWork
#VaccinesSaveLives
#VaccinesWork
#VaccinesSaveLives
October 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I just got my annual #FluShot 💉. Thanks to my employer, St. John's University, for organizing the Flu Clinic on campus every year.
#VaccinesWork
#VaccinesSaveLives
#VaccinesWork
#VaccinesSaveLives
#scientistswhocook: spaghetti with fish collar meat from salmon and red snapper, in a while wine, garlic, mascarpone, and parsley sauce.
#spaghetti #salmon #RedSnapper
#spaghetti #salmon #RedSnapper
October 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
#scientistswhocook: spaghetti with fish collar meat from salmon and red snapper, in a while wine, garlic, mascarpone, and parsley sauce.
#spaghetti #salmon #RedSnapper
#spaghetti #salmon #RedSnapper
I'm grateful that I live in a state where I can still get the #CovidVaccine If I so choose.
Shot number 7 for me 💉 since January 2021.
#VaccinesWork
#VaccinesSaveLives
Shot number 7 for me 💉 since January 2021.
#VaccinesWork
#VaccinesSaveLives
October 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I'm grateful that I live in a state where I can still get the #CovidVaccine If I so choose.
Shot number 7 for me 💉 since January 2021.
#VaccinesWork
#VaccinesSaveLives
Shot number 7 for me 💉 since January 2021.
#VaccinesWork
#VaccinesSaveLives
This was a collaborative project with Alberto Stolfi at GeorgiaTech and @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social at @nyu.edu, @msarscentre.bsky.social, and @unibergen.bsky.social .
Alberto also created a song for this paper, in the style of 80s hard rock. Check it out 🔈
Alberto also created a song for this paper, in the style of 80s hard rock. Check it out 🔈
September 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This was a collaborative project with Alberto Stolfi at GeorgiaTech and @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social at @nyu.edu, @msarscentre.bsky.social, and @unibergen.bsky.social .
Alberto also created a song for this paper, in the style of 80s hard rock. Check it out 🔈
Alberto also created a song for this paper, in the style of 80s hard rock. Check it out 🔈
#scientistswhocook: spaghetti with Acadian redfish in a garlic, white wine, mascarpone, parsley, and olive oil sauce. Paired with a Stein sparkling rosé from the Mosel region in Germany.
#spaghetti #redfish #mascarpone #sparkling #rosé #Mosel #Germany
#spaghetti #redfish #mascarpone #sparkling #rosé #Mosel #Germany
September 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
#scientistswhocook: spaghetti with Acadian redfish in a garlic, white wine, mascarpone, parsley, and olive oil sauce. Paired with a Stein sparkling rosé from the Mosel region in Germany.
#spaghetti #redfish #mascarpone #sparkling #rosé #Mosel #Germany
#spaghetti #redfish #mascarpone #sparkling #rosé #Mosel #Germany
#scientistswhocook: #risotto with Chinese roast pork, #bokchoy, oyster #mushrooms, garlic, butter, white wine, and #parmesan cheese. Totally improvised using pork from Chinese #takeout, but it came out pretty good! 👍
August 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
#scientistswhocook: #risotto with Chinese roast pork, #bokchoy, oyster #mushrooms, garlic, butter, white wine, and #parmesan cheese. Totally improvised using pork from Chinese #takeout, but it came out pretty good! 👍
#scientistswhocook: Mediterranean #snapper #dentex #dentice caught #spearfishing in #Sardinia #Sardegna, and roasted in the oven over a bed of potatoes with #myrtle #mirto leaves. I catch it, I clean it, I cook it, I eat it.
July 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
#scientistswhocook: Mediterranean #snapper #dentex #dentice caught #spearfishing in #Sardinia #Sardegna, and roasted in the oven over a bed of potatoes with #myrtle #mirto leaves. I catch it, I clean it, I cook it, I eat it.
#scientistswhocook: #amberjack #ricciola and #grouper #cernia prepared raw as #carpaccio and #tartare. Fish caught #spearfishing in #Sardinia #Sardegna. I catch it, I clean it, I prepare it, I eat it.
July 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
#scientistswhocook: #amberjack #ricciola and #grouper #cernia prepared raw as #carpaccio and #tartare. Fish caught #spearfishing in #Sardinia #Sardegna. I catch it, I clean it, I prepare it, I eat it.
This is why #IloveCorsica. Always exciting to arrive in #Bonifacio #Corsica #France, one of the most beautiful harbors of the #Mediterranean.
July 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This is why #IloveCorsica. Always exciting to arrive in #Bonifacio #Corsica #France, one of the most beautiful harbors of the #Mediterranean.
June 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM